Scripps Oceanography researchers work in a variety of fields in biology, earth science, and oceans and atmospheric science. Select any of the topics below for a sampling of researchers in that field and news stories about their work.
- Biological Impacts of Climate Change
- Chemical Ecology
- Coastal Ecology
- Conservation Ecology
- Coral Reef Biology and Ecology
- Deep-Sea Biology
- Developmental Biology of Marine Organisms
- Ecosystem Dynamics and Theory
- Environmental Toxicology
- Fisheries Biology and Management
- Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics
- Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology
- Life History Strategies and Behaviors
- Marine Benthic Ecology
- Marine Chemical Biology and Biotechnology
- Marine Mammal Biology
- Marine Microbiology
- Natural Products Chemistry
- Phylogenetics, Systematics and Biogeography
- Physiology of Marine Organisms
- Phytoplankton Biology and Algal Biofuels
- Plankton Ecology and Food-Web Interactions
- Polar Ecology
- Population and Community Ecology
- Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
- Acoustics and Infrasound
- Biogeochemistry
- Coastal Processes
- Cryosphere and Polar Science
- Electromagnetism
- Geodesy and Lithospheric Deformation
- Geodynamics
- Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism
- High Temperature Geochemistry
- Hydrogeology
- Instrumentation and Observational Networks
- Isotopic Geochemistry
- Low Temperature Geochemistry
- Marine, Atmospheric, and Aqueous Tracers
- Marine Chemistry
- Marine Geology and Geophysics
- Mathematical and Theoretical Geophysics
- Planetary Sciences and Meteoritics
- Numerical Modeling
- Paleoceanography and Paleoecology
- Remote Sensing
- Sedimentary Processes
- Seismology and Earthquake Physics
- Tectonics and Structural Geology
- Volcanology
- Applied Ocean Sciences
- Atmospheric Aerosols and Chemistry
- Autonomous Ocean Platforms and Global Observing Systems
- Biogeochemistry and Greenhouse Gases
- Climate Sciences
- Cloud Physics and Boundary Layer Processes
- Coastal Oceanography
- Global Hydrography and Circulation
- Ice in the Climate System
- Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing
- Land Surface Hydrology
- Modeling and State Estimation of the Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate
- Nearshore and Surf Zone Processes
- Nonlinear and Surface Waves
- Ocean Acidification
- Ocean Acoustics
- Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
- Ocean Instrumentation and Technology
- Ocean Optics
- Past Climate Change
- Physical Oceanography
- Remote Sensing and Satellite Oceanography
- Southern Ocean and High-Latitude Climate Studies
- Tropical Meteorology and Oceanography
- Upper Ocean and Submesoscale Processes